With a quarter century of stand-up under her belt, Kate Clinton calls herself “the last lesbian comic standing.” But where Kate really stands is as at the forefront of the lesbian movement, where her sharp, politically charged humor has made her a celebrated voice of enlightenment and empowerment. Since quitting her day job as a high school English teacher in 1981, she has spread her comic gospel, helping us laugh our way “through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.”